... moderate Liberal principles to support which you were elected? Then, without any compromise of principle, on either side, those Whigs who preferred the interests of their country to their party, might gradually lend their talents and administrative ability ...

... House that bribery at elections was originated by the Whigs. Without departing from exact historical truth, he might have added, that the Liberals and Radicals have inherited the vice from the Whigs, and have developed it into enormous proportions. Both ...

... impute to the Conservatives that opposition to the Ministerial plan of Reform which has been originated and chiefly urged by Whigs and Liberals, and evinced his inability to comprehend the scope of complete project of Reform by characterising the debate ...

... contains very large proportion of good old Whig members of good old Whig families —but members who have in all times stood by the country and its liberties, at times when those liberties were in danger. Any man may be Whig in a good sense, and yet may be a good ...

... Ministry pledged themselves to stand or fall by their Reform Bill For my own part, remembering the tenacity with which the Whigs cling office, and the great humiliation they will submit rather than quit it, I was very doubtf if the proud boast would be ...

... Bill getting into committee. The gravity of the pending war crisis in Europe was of course made the most of, aud dissentient Whigs and Liberals were appealed to not to do anything that would imperil tbe Administration at so serious juncture. Against these ...

... landlords of the power of controlling the legislature of the country. Lord John Manners, the poet of the middle ages, besought the whig landlords piteous accents not to abandon their order by adopting bill which would limit the landed interest to its fair share ...

... to the peace of Europe. The Chancellor of the Exchequer admitted that was invidious and unkind to cast the advice of the Whig-Liberal Administration into the teeth of Austria at this her moment of supreme difficulty ; but his knowledge of the wrong ...

... Conservative members. He believed that the Scotch members who had done so much to advance the Bill were either the nominees of Whig peers or of Radical baillies. After some further discussion, which at last became of rather a tumultous character, the committee ...

... debated. Col. Edwards said the object of the Bill was avowedly to extinguish the Great Conservative Party, but he warned the Whigs to look out for themselves. They had for years been ringing the changes with the Greys, the Russells, and the Elliots, but ...

... and 9 Amendments. What will a Ministerial measare come to. Ans. Grief. Subtraction of Whigs. From Whigs various 300 Deduct Whigspwr et simple .. .. 285 There remain Whigs 15 not so pure and simple. Vulgar Fractions. Reduce Parliamentary Oratory a common ...

... Cabinet, we think it morn than prob.'Jjle that dexterous motion for parliamentary reform would lead the reinstatement of the Whigs next February, though wa don't ccc what the reformers are likely to get by such motion except return Perhaps~a reconstruction ...